pg. 41 - Litany of the kinds of things people memorized when they had to memorize discreet items before they memorized poems and such.
- Lucius Scipio knew all of the people of Rome.
Books:
Memorize the Faith! (And Most Anything Else): Using the methods of the Great Catholic Medieval Memory Masters - Kevin Vost
The Singer of Tales - Albert B. Lord (the one I blogged on! :)
"Ten Cent Plague" - History of comic books!
-People are talking about the things they will see in their memory palace.
- Reciting of the muses with the class objects.... we're having people going around the room.
Erato - naked erato
Clio - old historian
Urania - projected onto the screen
Thalia - laughing at quiet desk
Polyhymnia - hymns from church on projector
Terpischore - dancing below polyhymnia
Calliope - no epic explanation
Euterpe - snowman of the calvin and hobbes
Melpomene - F is like swastica and she is tragic
- Underscore ESOTERIC in this class because we are all secretly in our own world here.
****ASSIGNMENT - Look in Yates's book and look at the images****
Go out before next week and learn 6 different languages.......riiight ;)
- One example of pg. 41 in Yates....Richard Burton knew so many different languages, he was a man who translated "Arabian Nights".
He wants to be entertained but he also wants us to memorize something useful.
-Check out Roger's blog and Sutter's blog to connect and get some good info on Groundhogs Day (the thing we spent all of class last time talking about).
Relating Prospero from Shakespeare's "Tempest" to the character Phil? in Groundhogs Day. Phil becomes a crazed perfectionist, micro-managing, obsessive compulsive...artist.
Read Ulysses.... "great stuff".
- Sexson read from an old essay he wrote about 16 years ago.... called Miranda's Attendants. Prospero's speech offended people with his crazy language. A line in a play composed of two nouns combined by an "and" and working to enlighten a third word. Great Parataxis.
-Phil Connors becomes a master magis by the end of the movie. He reaches the meaning of life. Everything is connected within the 24 hours you live you life each day. It's what we should all strive to achieve.
**** Why does Miranda, in thinking back to her first memory, think of women attendants who were helping her? Why did these women keep coming back???? Who really are these women who attended her? MUSES(Blog on it.) Instead of passively recalling, because Prospero made her recreate her memory within her. Remembers as much through her nerves as through her brain. She remembers her actual, historical as well as the mythical that Prospero is imbuing upon her.****
****How do we get to the mythic level when speaking/thinking of our thermostat and quiet desk and such?****
-The scientific method comes from the occult and ancient systems of memorization.
3 things that make Prospero's helping so powerful:
Pictorial, playful, and polymorphic
Allegory of the cave plays today as well:
-Movie Theatre
-Video Games
How might Plato's cave be seen again as a memory grotto?
-Talked about Samuel Beckett's plays like "Endgame" where the theatre and stage were set up like the inside of the stage.
-We would be able to tell Miranda who the attendants were and what they do.... (we see them around the room).
- By Friday, he wants a list of the 50 things we will be memorizing. Read chapters 12+3 in Ong with emphasis on 3, Kane prologue and 1, and Chapter 2 and on in Yates (pretty much what we've all should have been doing for the last few weeks ;).
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